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I am not talking about the billionaires. The billionaires are the equivalent of the rich who the aristocrats of old borrowed money from.
Do you feel in charge? If you're the top 10%, why do you not feel in charge? What are you doing about it?
I'm criticizing your leisure time because you're the one here who's unhappy about not being handed things like convenient and enriching competition. I work for 1/3 of the money someone in my IQ cohort could and apply 1/10 the effort. I feel quite alright with the ratio of money to effort I'm getting, and spend the rest of my time engaging in laborer leisure. Meanwhile, you're larping at "aristocratic leisure" while very evidently not being an aristocrat. (You could tell if you were because you'd feel in charge.)
The reason I don't have to demonstrate that is that farm animals are much better at dragging plows and being tasty than me (and tractors beat them at the former, too). If you lived in the era where draft animals were scarce you'd have to prove why you'd be more useful in the office doing shape rotating/wordcelry than dragging a plow. We don't have species segregation, we just made animal labor cheaper than ours.
Aristocrat is a phenotype, aristocracy is rule by that phenotype. I am an aristocrat, but there is no aristocracy. This whole exchange, you have struggled with distinguishing descriptive and normative statements, redefining my normative statements as different descriptive statements and then claiming that those descriptions are not true. For example, I say I want an aristocracy. You then define an aristocrat as any person that gets some social authority, and remark that you don't think I have any. Then you say I'm not an aristocrat. That is not a productive way to have this conversation.
We don't know that they are more tasty, because species segregation has banned any investigation into this question. You have that privilege. Now imagine if you had to fight tooth and nail not having the privilege, and if there were no species segregation police force you didn't invent, organize, or sufficiently fund that was willing to enforce your species privilege. Your existence would be much more precarious in such a world.
We have some reports of the taste. And we do know from evidence that it is not enticing enough to even fund a decently-sized black market. Criminals widely trade in weapons, drugs, sex, slaves, children, sex slaves, child slaves and sex with children, yet human meat remains an afterthought for the very few depraved.
Even if I lived next to a cannibal barbarian tribe without any protection, my existence would not be substantially more precarious than living next to a non-cannibal barbarian tribe.
There is no objective definition of aristocracy or aristocrats. When I deny you being an aristocrat because you do not rule, this is me being charitable, conceding the implication that if you were higher on the totem pole, I would not question your status as an aristocrat.
Less charitably:
For all I can see your self-designation of an aristocrat is mostly according to a definition you have custom-made to fit yourself but not the people who you are bitter about losing status to.
This is indeed not a productive discussion. There have been other posters who combined high opinion of their own virtues with low tangible evidence of such. This is not a good combination. You want someone to care about your high IQ without asking for what you have accomplished with it, join MENSA. I heard it's a dull community precisely because it attracts the people who have the measure of intelligence but not the virtue of it, but perhaps you'll find it different.
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